Server Side Includes
What precisely are Server Side Includes? How could you improve your rankings using SSI?
Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add some content to few different web pages on your site and alter it by simply updating a single text file. You'll be able to also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so that the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file show on your site. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a professional overall appearance. It will be quicker to update this content as compared to editing each static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all shared web hosting plans we offer you and enable it separately for every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, as you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the capabilities that our solutions contain. In case you have currently built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.
